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Just In: Kenya Confirms Nnamdi Kanu Didn’t Undergo Extradition Proceedings
Kingsley Kanunta Kanu, brother to the chief of proscribed Indigenous Folks of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on Thursday claimed that Kenya has confirmed in Courtroom that his sibling didn’t endure extradition proceedings within the East African nation.
Kanunta Kanu made this identified in an announcement he signed, which was shared by high lawyer, Barrister Aloy Ejimakor.
Press Informant recollects that Ejimakor, a Particular Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, had all the time maintained that his consumer was “kidnapped” in Kenya earlier than being dropped at Nigeria in June.
Ejimakor argued that since Nnamdi Kanu is a British citizen and entered Kenya along with his British passport, he ought to not have been dropped at Nigeria for any motive with out legitimate courtroom orders for his extradition.
He mentioned that Nnamdi Kanu’s elementary human rights have been grossly violated by those that masterminded his “rendition” to Nigeria, accusing the Kenyan Authorities of culpability.
He maintained that it was in opposition to worldwide legal guidelines to illegally arrest anyone on overseas land, an act that quantities to “abduction”.
Based on Ejimakor, Nnamdi Kanu can’t be lawfully prosecuted by the federal authorities of Nigeria except the problem of his extra-ordinary rendition is first discharged, and if he’s to face trial in Nigeria, he’ll first be returned to Kenya and Britain the place he resides earlier than Nigeria will apply for his extradition in a British courtroom.
Now, in in search of freedom for Nnamdi Kanu, Kanunta Kanu claims that the Kenyan authorities filed its go well with in respect of the separatist chief’s matter on Tuesday, and a part of their defence was that ‘there aren’t any extradition proceedings to justify that it’s answerable for Nnamdi Kanu ’s extradition’.
The press assertion from Nnamdi Kanu’s defence staff reads partly: “On 2nd November 2021, the Authorities of Kenya filed its protection to the go well with I had earlier filed in Kenya on behalf of my brother, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“Will probably be recalled that following my brother’s extraordinary rendition in June this yr, the Kenyan Authorities had publicly issued collection of statements, denying its complicity on this abominable act.
“Within the mentioned protection that it filed in Courtroom, Kenya has not solely continued in its denials, however it went additional to verify that my brother was denied the advantage of the due strategy of extradition in Kenya or perhaps a lawful arrest.
“Particularly, the protection the Kenyan Authorities filed in courtroom acknowledged in main half “That there aren’t any extradition proceedings to justify that the Authorities of Kenya is answerable for the topic’s extradition”.
The assertion added: “It additional acknowledged “That there is no such thing as a OB report from any of the Police station throughout the Nation to point that the topic in problem was lawfully arrested and detained for functions of commencing extradition proceedings”.
“It must be emphasised that above admissions have formally confirmed our long-held place that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s switch from Kenya to Nigeria is illegal, not lawful as was claimed by the Nigerian Authorities.
“This newest revelation, formally made in open Courtroom by Kenya, additional solidifies our abiding place that the Nigerian Authorities can’t profit from its personal improper by subjecting my brother to trial.
